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No idea of the actual answer, but here are some things to think about:

For the last year or two, many, if not all, settings have been migrated out of Xorg.conf. I think they ended up in hal. If this is the case for the settings in question, changes in the Xorg file would have no effect. I ran into this when I was trying to fix touchpad issues. I've heard some rumblings from the horizon that the whole X11 system is being depreciated in the not too distant future. (google wayland).

Screen shots are great, but I'm not sure what I'm seeing. It looks like some of the characters are not in the "English" (iso-whatever) character set. If that's what you're seeing, check your language and font settings for your desktop and individual applications. Also check your locale settings and make sure you're not "turning Japanese" ;)

Also, check what fonts you have installed. There should be a font manager in your system settings. Linux comes with only a few installed by default (but there should be more than enough to get a display like the one you showed to work right.) There's usually also an option to import Windows fonts if Windows is installed on your system.